we work for the fire department, we said we are going to support our ravens. we love them. we love ray lewis. we want to show him our support. we are going to win sunday. >> nobody partys like dispatchers that have been up all night. the purple caravan moved through the day. all around the city of baltimore. one icon is giving love to another. dominos sent in this. that's really cool. catch the ravens light display until 10:00 all weekend long. for pictures from fans, dogs, babies, cats to companies going purple, head to

abc2news.com/raven. send us your pictures. this purple friday and abc 2 is your ravens station, we have a live one hour special, back for round two tonight at 7:00. checking in with meagan pringle live coming up and she will have live team coverage from kelly swoope and mike masco and analysis of what we can expect on the field from the studio. >> let's take a peek at the weather, 36 degrees, foxboro. falling temperatures through the game could end up in the upper 20s. windchills down to low 20s. harsh conditions with the gusts to 35. mike masco will have more on the details of the winds in the stadium coming up. we have a little bit of a windchill here across the baltimore area. 24 york, 31 easton. zooming out, we have cleared the skies up and down the even sea board, setsing the stage

for a decent weekend. cold this evening, in to tonight. a bit of a warm up before we really get the cold air in here. we have the details straight ahead. the first witness took the stand against leopold. he faces misconduct charges related to a sex scandal. cheryl conner joins us now with the opening statements. >> reporter: she is the first witness called, county executives assistant, she described a culture of fear. >> i feel sorry for her. i'm sure she had to relive everything trying to describe the things she had to do. >> reporter: harris has her civil lawsuit claiming retaliation after fired by leopold. medlin testified quote it was my experience that you don't tell him no, people lost jobs,

i have seen it. she described being on her hands and knees as leopold required her help to change a urine bag following back surgery. >> were you afraid you might get fired, it happened over and over again. >> reporter: during opening statements defense attorney focused on his health showing an x-ray of his back. it's a miracle that john leopold did not just sit down, and say i cap do this, marcus said. the state argued he wasted tax dollars by misusing security officers who are members of the arundel county police department. he is charged with four counts of misconduct in office and one count of fraud. the state called members of the arundel county police department and former county executive owens has it worked to proof he abused -- proof he abused his powers.

cheryl conner, abc2 news. >> the trial will pick up on tuesday because of the holiday monday. county executive could lose his job and face jail time as well. a police officer is the focus of an animal cruelty investigation. jeff hager is live with more on how the case was discovered. >> it's said a dog is man's best friend, but in this case, the allegations are true, the dog's owner was his first enemy. the call came in to arundel animal control december 22nd, when an officer responded to a report of a stray dog, they found nicholas, a shepherd mix, emaciated and bleeding from the lower quarters. he won over the hearts of the staff at the animal hospital. >> he was a very cool dog. he did tricks and would sit and give you his paw. he would show you he wanted

attention. he would do a dance with his paws if you were nears he would lean on you. >> reporter: nicholas' owners failed to provide nicholas n8gj the attention he needed the most, medical attention. now they find themselves on the wrong side of the law. >> the owner of the dog is a police officer, 11 year veteran, he is placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation. >> reporter: proving fatal for nicholas. the doctor neutered the dog and treated him for prostate and kidney infections. ultimately on monday, the veterinarian had to put him down. >> we have to take care of them, sometimes euthanizing is the only option. he was very sweet dog. we fell in love with him. completely. talking about him, our technicians cried because he was just so sweet. >> following the death, the

couple was served a criminal summons and face two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. steven har had police powers suspended. jeff hager, abc2 news. you hit the gym for the new years resolution but come home sick with the flu. avoid germs hiding at your favorite workout spot. we learned lance armstrong still might not be telling the whole truth. what he is still lying about. a brew it will attack on a woman waiting for the subway. what the man said before she ended up on the tracks. let's play:

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people with egg allergies will be able to rest easier next flu season. there a new flu vaccine. it's called flu block. it's safe for people between the ages of 18-49. there are possible side effects. headaches, fatigue and muscle aches reported. that's true for the current flu vaccine as well. gyms are more crowded, it's flu season also, people heading for well intentioned workout could be coming home with the flu. linda so has tips to avoid germs while you are trying to get back in shape. >> reporter: fitness clubs are a haven for germs, shared space with a lot of people sharing the same equipment, that can make it easier for germs to spread. there are some things you can do to avoid catching the flu bug while working out. don't touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your hands, you can get the flu by touching a

contaminated surface and touchg your face. most germs are spread that way. second, wipe down equipment with a disinfectant wipe. towels may spread germs from one machine to another. don't underestimate the power of washing hands, its best way to kill germs that maybe on your fingers. take a break from workingout, the best way to recover is get rest and sleep. linda so, abc2 news. as people step up the workouts, knee pain, more middle-aged women it's common, as elizabeth found out, there are ways to avoid it. >> reporter: women with knee pain know how miserable ey÷can debilitate it can truly be. >> as women age, accumulating injuries, it may lead to arthritis and changes. >> reporter: the american

college of rheumatology says two-thirds of women ag50 and older have a degree of knee pain, it may come and go or stick around. osteoarthritis is often to blame. >> we think estrogen may have a protective effect on the cartilage of the knee. >> reporter: sometimes due to overuse injuries. see your primary doctors to start determining the cause. he or she may need to send you to a specialist. discuss anti-inflammatory medications and don't forget to use exercise as meds sin, do exercise that strengthens the muscles around the knee and you may need physical therapy. avoid high impact exercises, focus on low impact ones. weight is also a leading cause of knee pain. i'm elizabeth cohen.

let's start off with a check of the most powerful radar. five sweeps scanning all clear. conditions absolutely different than yesterday when we had snowy weather. let's take you north, all eyes focused on foxboro, sunday night, clear conditions in foxboro today for ravens fans traveling in that direction, bright and cold conditions here, at the stadium. they are testing tout jumbo tron. beautiful blue skies. nice to see the sun again. we haven't seen it for days and days. a full week since we seen a crystal clear sky. there you go. we had it today, nice finish in bel air, east side, dundalk. a chill in the air as we look at the current conditions, 33bwi, dew point of 8, air is

dry. run the humidifier over the weekend as the dry air runs in through overnight hours. colder air is really coming our way towards next week. more in a second. see the current windfield, west, just enough wind to create the windchill, feeling like the 20s. cold stuff from northward, windchills in the 20s, wellmington, tomorrow, we will shift the winds direction w a southwest wind, abundant sunshine, we should see temperatures getting back to the mids 40s, big warm up from today. right back there on sundays, however, by sunday afternoon, the winds turning north westerly and cold air will begin to punch in the state and hang out for the bulk of the part of next week, early in the middle part of next week. enjoying a clear and milder streak in to the weekend, we look at the future trend model here, and bottom line is, conditions will stay clear, looking good through sunday,

here is our leading edge of a cold front that will have teeth. that will begin to punch in sunday night in to monday, bring up the winds for the football game and it will get reinforce bade secondary cold front in to the middle part of next week. that's going to drop temperatures. arctic air ready to move in, edging in sunday night at game time. game time temperatures look like they will be in the 30s to the mid-30s. this does not account for the wind, which could gust up to 30 and windchill factors in the 20s through the game. different weather than denver. not as frigid but windersier, that's the deal. tonight 25. mostly clear and cold tomorrow. 48 for the two degree guarantee. a milder pattern setting up. tomorrow night, down to 35. not as frigid. that will allow for a day in the 40s sunday. that chance for few snow showers monday as the cold

blast forces in to the state. the set up in to the middle part of next week, highs in the upper 20s, with lows down to mid teens, that will be by far the coldest weather of the season. after the big win in denver, the ravens proven they can win no matter what kind of 5are dealing with. mike masco is live to break down the conditions the ravens are going to expect on sunday. >> reporter: it's a cold place, definitely. it's about the wind. now it's about the fans. here we go. let's talk about the wind. we will be here tonight through 7:00, big show on abc 2. let's talk about the wind.

that's will be a factor with the game. winds gusts between 25-35 miles per hour during the course of the game. we were talking about how, elements could play a big part. tom brady, his worst performance in the wind dates back two 2007. 20, 30 miles per hour winds, he lost. the last time he played a game with wind was back in october. that might be a beneficial aspect of the whole thing. maybe that means the ravens are going to win. we will see what happens. we are down here at del rosa. we will be here all weekend long. grab a drink, great food down here. good food, good drinks, back to you.

i swear those ladies were there last week. they are having a good time. why not. sometimes in tears, lance armstrong supposedly came clean about his use of performance enhancing drugs in an interview with oprah. federal investigators say he lied in last night's interview. mark reports on the inconsistencies. >> reporter: you can call it the confession heard around the world. with that, the man who won the tour defrance 7 times came clean about dopeing to oprah after years of denying the acts that led him to losing titles. >> did you blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance. >> reporter: once a hero, lance armstrong says he didn't just tell one lie but many.

>> i view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. >> he says he never felt guilt while in the act. >> it did not feel wrong? >> no. >> scary. >> did you feel bad about it? >> no. >> he is in the process of learning of how many lies he affect -- lives he affected and ruined. >> reporter: doping investigators tell abc news armstrong is still lying today. even while confessing to oprah about lying to others. pointing to this claim. >> the last time i crossed the line, that line, was 2005. >> reporter: claiming blood tests reveal he cheated in 2009, he is lying now to avoid criminal prosecution, which might come if he confesses to

recent crimes not outside the statute of limitations. the head of the world anti- doping agency say several statements were inaccurate, if he wants to come clean, he should do it under oath where he can be cross examined. >> we want to know what you think. head to abc2news.com/facebook, go there and tell us whether you think the interview helped or hurt his public image. a man throw as woman onto the subway tracks and it's caught on tape, why police didn't release the suspect weigh away. armed security guard gets the gun turned on him. how this standoff ends.

sitting on the bench waiting on the subway when a man tosses her on the tracks in philadelphia. he walked free for two days. police didn't release a p description until later. >> i wanted to catch this guy, i truly felt that the best way to do that was to hold onto the information about his jacket and put as many officers as i could out there, to catch him. it worked. >> the woman was able to pull herself up off of the tracks. they weren't sure of a motive but believe the man may have had mental illness. armed guard is robbed walking in to a bank. see the robbers made the guard lay flat on the grounds and grabbed the money and took off. the guard got up and shot at the robbers. fbi believes he hit the driver in the leg. undisclosed amount of cash was taken from the brinks driver.

a bus crashes in to a swimming pool. the bus was on its way to pick up students when the driver lost control, hit a utility pole and landed in the pool. the driver was treated for cuts and bruises. last year we were crying by the end of the game. ravens hope to put fans face down. we will take you around the area on this purple friday. we have our first pictures of many tales since the fake girlfriend scandal broke. we will tell you who is admitting to what. the algerian hostage situation is very fluid. we will tell you how the military is responding. a blast of air headed our way. it won't be here for tomorrow or sundays. will it get here by your holiday monday? coming up.

opening statements in the trial of executive john leopold he is charged with misconduct, med land says lee peeled asked her to change his urine bag. police officers on administrative duty while animal control investigates animal abuse charges. the stray dog was caught walking in the streets, severely emaciated and bleeding. the dog belonged to steven har, a police officer. doctors had to put the dog down. investigators say lance armstrong is lying today. he gave an interview to oprah winfrey last night where he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. he said it stopped in 2005. sources say he